Branding

We think of brands as amazingly powerful. People prefer whatever cola they are drinking, as long as it's labeled Coca Cola. People pay lots more for a Ralph Lauren Polo shirt than a generic shirt of identical quality. And while the…

It's no surprise that most of us will adjust our own expressed views to those around us. If your friends are raving about the meal you all just ate, you might tend to go with the flow rather than being the solo critic. Perhaps you…

Buyology Inc. has released its "first annual" list of the most desired brands in the U.S. Of interest to Neuromarketing readers is that the list is based on the firm's Neurotypes brand profiling technique, which uses a combination of…

Does all outdoor advertising have to be two dimensional and boring? Ad agency Colley+McVoy and Caribou Coffee show that's not the case with an ad concept that really puts consumers next to the product. Or, at least the consumers will…

Sometimes the best thing for a brand is an enemy: a rival brand that can be the focus of advertising. The other day, Mark Gallagher and Laura Savard at the BlackCoffee blog put the advantage of focusing on a rival succinctly:

Stare at a lightbulb for a few seconds, and when you look away you'll see a colored spot no matter where you look. That's an "afterimage," and these ghostly remains of what you are looking at can be much more interesting than a mere…

What does it take to make you happy? Not much. A classic study by psychologist Norbert Schwarz found that ten cents would do the trick. He and his cohorts repeatedly placed a dime near a copy machine where they knew it would be found.…

This is the time of year for "top" lists, and I thought I'd list the most popular Neuromarketing posts for 2010. This list isn't my opinion of which are best, but rather is based purely on popularity. These posts all generated some…

People hate negative advertising. So why do advertisers (notably political campaigns) keep doing it, and why does it work? We covered this in Why Negative Ads Work, but our brains hold yet another answer, as a test with subliminal…

I've been hearing the invented word "brandwashing" for years now, but this combination of "branding" and "brainwashing" received new exposure when the New York Times suggested it as a synonym for neuromarketing.